| 释义 |
monkeyfy, v.|ˈmʌŋkɪfaɪ|
Also 8 monkify.
[f. monkey n. + -fy.]
trans. To make like a monkey; to make ridiculous-looking. Hence ˈmonkeyfied, ˈmonkeyfying ppl. adjs.
1761Chron. in Ann. Reg. 126 A parcel of prentice boys monkified in the same manner [i.e. ‘frenchified up in the new mode’]. 1834M. Scott Cruise Midge x. (1842) 174 The people have so monkeyfied him that he is scarcely presentable on the quarterdeck. 1836E. Howard R. Reefer xix, His features were compressed into a small monkeyfied compass. 1862D. Wilson Preh. Man vii. 121 The very monkeyfying process to which some of the illustrations of inferior human types have been subjected in this pictorial chorography. |